The recent debate over the validity of the city’s online maps and whether developers and the public can rely on them isn’t a new problem with the Hayward administration. In October 2014,…
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Long Hollow radio tower to be discussed today
Pensacola City Council Executive Donald Kraher was tasked by the City Council in November to research the Long Hollow radio tower. He will present his findings at a council workshop this afternoon….
Floodgate: The Story of the Long Hollow Radio Tower
Melanie Nichols will be on News Talk 1370 WCOA’s “Pensacola Speaks” this afternoon to talk about her upcoming presentation, “Floodgate: The Story of the Long Hollow Radio Tower.” The Women’s Civic Forum…
Pensacola City Council missed opportunity to stop radio tower completion
In February, Councilman Brian Spencer tried to add to the agenda for the next council meeting a discussion of the radio tower being built in the Long Hollow Conservation District and the…
Olson to address Long Hollow issues tonight
PNJ reporter Will Isern is doing a follow-up story on the Long Hollow Radio Tower. Elizabeth Schrey spoke with Isern about how city staff knew the tower wasn’t allowed in the Long…
Former city planner says city staff knew radio tower was illegal
Elizabeth Schrey worked as a city planner for the City of Pensacola from December 2012-February 2015. She told Inweekly this morning that both her boss, Planning Services Director Sherry Morris, and Bill…
More opinions sought on Long Hollow radio tower
Several Pensacola City Council members have been told that the city administration is seeking to find another attorney to render opinions on the non-conformity of the new, larger radio tower built in…
City stonewalls request for public records of Divine Word Communications
Inweekly has made five requests for the Divine Word Communications’ records regarding the demolition of the old radio tower and the construction of the new, larger tower in the Long Hollow Conservation…
Council members wait for more info before debating radio tower quagmire
Inweekly shared with the Pensacola City Council the two legal opinions from John Asmar regarding the non-conformity of the new, larger radio tower built in the Long Hollow Conservation District and the…
Legal Opinion 2: Divine Word lease and building permits null and void
In light of his legal opinion that the radio tower violates Florida Statutes, the City of Pensacola Land Development Code and its Comprehensive Plan, Inweekly asked attorney John Asmar for a second…
Legal Opinion: Divine Word tower should be removed from Long Hollow basin
City Attorney Lysia Bowling misled the Pensacola City Council with a rather narrow legal opinion on the Ground Lease between the City of Pensacola and Divine Word Communications that she rendered an…
Mayor and City Council violated its policies with radio tower lease
The Pensacola City Council ratified its policy for the disposition (by sale or lease) of city-owned real property on the day Mayor Ashton Hayward and the council were sworn into office on…